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Meet the 2026-27 Graduate Student Associates
The Fairbank Center is pleased to announce this year’s GSA cohort of affiliated doctoral students For the 2026-27 academic year, six doctoral students will join…
Fall 2026 Acquisitions at the H.C. Fung Library
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Faculty Spotlight
Professor Michael Szonyi doesn’t mind that his students sometimes feel uncomfortable in his undergraduate class on rural China. In fact, when it comes to learning about the land reform movement in the early years following the Communist Party’s victory in 1949, when hundreds of thousands of landlords were executed and land was redistributed to the poorest, that’s exactly the point.
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In Memoriam: Barry R. Bloom (1937-2026)
Barry R. Bloom, a pioneering immunologist, global public health leader, and former dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, passed away on March 18, 2026, after a…
Interview | How China Is Struggling to Handle the Urban-Rural Divide – Professor Michael Szonyi
Interview With Professor Michael Szonyi | How China Is Struggling to Handle the Urban-Rural Divide Professor Michael Szonyi (Harvard) reflects on the transformation of rural China, the resilience of village…
Media, Infrastructure, and Indigeneity: Conversations from Taiwan Studies+ 2.0
The second annual Taiwan Studies+ Symposium—which was generously supported by both the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the…
Interview With Professor Susan Greenhalgh | Why Chinese Women are Resisting Xi’s Call to Reproduce
Critical Issues Interview | Why Chinese Women are Resisting Xi’s Call to Reproduce – Professor Susan Greenhalgh In this interview for the Critical Issues Confronting China Series, Professor Susan Greenhalgh,…
In Memoriam: Michael B. McElroy (1939 – 2026)
Michael McElroy, a pioneering atmospheric scientist who taught at Harvard from 1970 until his retirement and who played a central role in shaping the University’s engagement with China on questions…